buzziebee
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- Comment on Xbox Slammed For AI-Generated Art Promoting Indie Games 11 months ago:
I hate this trend of saying “SLAMMED”, or “HOUNDED”, or “ATTACKED” etc in news articles where the stories are just “a couple of people with a dozen followers between them posted slightly negative tweets about topic xyz”.
My parents were bitching about how Adele was “HAMMERED” online because she said “I am proud to be a woman” or something. Turns out it was just two complete nobodies tweeting about how that’s trans exclusionary or something with 1 heart each.
- Comment on How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media? 11 months ago:
Yeah I think it’s because there’s so much less engagement here than on Reddit. The same toxic people would have been buried or down voted to hell over there, but here with far far fewer comments those toxic trolls will remain visible and take up a disproportionate amount of any comments section.
There’s also a selection bias thing going on, people who would get shadow banned or downvoted on Reddit find that they get engagement with their content here so stick around, the people who they put off will leave, which causes the toxicity ratio to go up and eventually the place will end up full of toxic commenters and posters. With a federated system this is an incredibly difficult problem to solve.
There’s some interesting musings on how this can affect the development of online spaces here which has stuck with me since I read it. eev.ee/blog/2016/07/22/on-a-technicality/
- Comment on 92% of young people would sacrifice other perks for a 4-day workweek—here's what they'd give up 1 year ago:
Free days* - it’s the same amount of free time, but having a whole day free is much different than having extra hours free on a work day.
- Comment on Now this is how you conduct a poll. 1 year ago:
Was the image photoshopped to show the “survey” text?
- Comment on Coming Soon to Game Pass: Cities: Skylines II, Dead Space, Jusant, Mineko’s Night Market, and More - Xbox Wire 1 year ago:
Unlucky :( I’ve had it on my wishlist but it was too much for me. Glad I’m going to get to play it. I never finished 3 so a full series playthrough might be in order. If you haven’t logged many hours on it you might be able to swing a refund? Though a week is a long time.
- Comment on England worst place in developed world to find housing, says report 1 year ago:
Well there are 4 million rental properties in the UK so your numbers don’t quite add up. A very significant number of properties are purchased and rented as investment assets. No one is saying that ending landlord property portfolios will magically fix the issue overnight, but it certainly adds inflationary pressure on house prices and prices normal people out from being able to purchase homes. Houses should be homes first, not speculative assets.
Through taxation policy it should be possible for a family to move home and rent their old one, or rent an inherited one whilst waiting to sell, etc without much additional burden. But we shouldn’t encourage private entities pricing out normal people from homes and forcing entire generations to only be renters.
The economic damage from high house prices and lack of generational wealth is way too expensive to allow this portion of the market to continue. Simultaneously we need to be building a fuckload more homes, yes, but there being other things to change shouldn’t dismiss other helpful ideas.
- Comment on England worst place in developed world to find housing, says report 1 year ago:
You’re correct that it’s not solely an issue of landlords buying up property that’s causing the shortage. I was just providing a possible legislative method to cut down on the number of properties being owned by speculators and corporate landlords.
There simply isn’t enough housing being built for the population growth we’ve been seeing. That’s 100% going to lead to an increase in prices.
In cities outside of London though there isn’t always that same pressure (i.e. Liverpool still has a housing surplus), so why are housing costs rising past the point where people can afford to buy them? Supply and demand should mean that prices remain affordable for most people but they aren’t.
A large number of rental properties are rented by investors of one form or another, if we can cut down on homes as speculative assets we should see more homes being sold to homeowners and prices fall back to more manageable levels for everyday people.
There are loads of other problems such as the UK building houses instead of things like apartments, planning permission bs, NIMBYism, economic activity being focused in the south, homeowners not wanting their valuations to go down, etc etc which are all part of the puzzle. Ensuring that more homes are owned by residents rather than investors can only be a good thing though imo.
- Comment on England worst place in developed world to find housing, says report 1 year ago:
I think if it’s a first time build you could work something out to not punish developers for building houses which take a little time to sell, but you’d also want to avoid developers building and sitting on properties. That will probably already happen though as they’ll want to recoup construction costs asap I imagine. For portfolio property buyers they’ll be incentivised to sell which is only a good thing.
- Comment on Rishi Sunak axes northern leg of HS2 in flurry of ‘radical’ decisions 1 year ago:
I grew up under labour and managed to vote in 2010. Since that election things have only continued to get worse as you say. It’s been a shit 13 years. I still very clearly remember the optimism and idea of collective action under labour, can’t wait to get them back in.
- Comment on England worst place in developed world to find housing, says report 1 year ago:
10% of Tory donations come from housebuilders. They are probably happy keeping demand artificially high and are paying to keep it that way.
- Comment on England worst place in developed world to find housing, says report 1 year ago:
Could be done fairly easily via the tax system. Each additional property you own increases the income tax on any rent and the capital gains tax when selling it. Bump up council tax for empty properties massively too and the market should correct itself with minimal direct intervention.
Set it up so having a second home means paying more for it, having 3 or 4 or 10 means it’s not profitable to keep it at all.
- Comment on Not my account, just posting this on behalf of UK people I used to follow when I did have a twitter account. Elon deleted the UK. 1 year ago:
Yeah it looks like the Union flag is next to Gabon. I think the country code is GB so it’s next to GA even though the name is United Kingdom. That might be what’s throwing people.
The two US flag emojis are actually different Unicode emojis.
The first is 🇺🇲 ‘U+1F1FA U+1F1F2’ and is for ‘U.S. Outlying Islands’.
The second is 🇺🇸 ‘U+1F1FA U+1F1F8’ and is for ‘United States’.
No malice, no bad code, no bugs or typos, this is just expected behaviour.
- Comment on Young people ditching ambitions over UK cost of living crisis, research finds 1 year ago:
Creating a nation wide scarcity mindset across generations is only going to make things even worse. Lack of investment, opportunities, and support means there will be even fewer new businesses and innovations. Levelling up my arse.
- Comment on Tories took £291,000 from airports lobbying for expansion 1 year ago:
They should just get it built. This NIMBYism combined with a leak of investment under the Tories is why things only seem to be getting worse in the UK. I lived next to a pub/club, I didn’t complain about the noise.
- Comment on Starfield install size revealed, available to preload now 1 year ago:
I think it’s a reasonable take. Skyrim was the last good game they put out, but I even preferred Oblivion to Skyrim - it captured my imagination more and there was more depth to the role playing - so I think it’s a fair view to be cautious.
I’m hoping it’s great, but with the size and scale of the procedurally generated content I’m kind of expecting it to be mostly soulless cookie cutter shooty shooty content with four times the detail but little actual role playing. It’s Bethesda so we know it’s going to be buggy, that’s nothing new.
Very much hoping to be blown away though.
- Comment on But have you tried Jerboa? 1 year ago:
For some reason I could no longer post replies to comments. I could log in, but it kept me stuck on anonymous for some reason. It also had pretty crap sorting ui so I just ended up seeing the same posts for days at a time, and when clicking on links it insisted on opening them in an external browser.
Compared to RiF it wasn’t a smooth UX for me. Sync I can tweak and it looks and feels very nice with no issues so far. I’ll probably try other options as things mature, but for now this is definitely “good enough” whereas other options weren’t for me.
The only thing I’d change about sync UI wise currently is the indentation of the comment actions. When I tap on a comment to upvote I expect it to be aligned with the comment, instead it’s always at full width. I keep bookmarking things by mistake.
- Comment on funny because true 1 year ago:
I’m actually a big fan of how they’ve standardised the design language and accessibility requirements across services. This “why” box that a couple of comments are criticising are likely so they can continue to improve accessibility.